New to the club! 4 days post PM

• by Lilly925
• 2013-07-09 06:07:34
• Surgery & Recovery
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• 4 comments

Hello everyone, was looking for answers and found this group! I just had my PM implanted on Friday 4 days ago! Reading the comments helped answer my questions and nice to hear answers from others who are experiencing the same thing. My story started on July 4th just a few days ago. I woke up with a leg cramp and stood up only to wake up kneeling in the floor beside my bed! I had fainted, came around and rolled onto the bed because no strength to stand up. Husband freaked out and called my Mother who lives just beside us. She came running and I fainted again for what seemed like forever to her. Called 911, my heart rate was low and I had came back around by the time they got here and in the ambulance it kept going up and back down the whole drive. In the ER I flatlined twice and come to find out at home also when I was out for a longer period. Put in temp pm and watched me in ICU overnight, needless to say the next day Friday, the 5th I got my shiny new device which paced twice during that night so it was a good call on my dr to go ahead and do a permanent PM. The dr said I have 2nd degree AV-
Heart block. I have had fainting episodes on and off for about 3 years now and the last 6 mos was getting worse. I was dx with low iron so they just wrote it off that I was tired and fainting and dizzy because of that. WRONG! Now though I'm so relieved to know what it really was all along and my new pal PM will help me continue to raise my children and enjoy life! Knowing I flatlined 3 times put a new perspective on things... I'm very thankful to have my pacemaker! I'm feeling sore and all the little flutters and twinges and feelings I know now is normal and will go away and I'll eventually stop noticing so that makes me feel so much more at ease. Glad to have found you guys!